The complete Windows 8 paradigm was ONLY to make desktop programmers compliant to cross-compile to a Microsoft Phone environment. And THAT has cost Microsoft and their suppliers a TON of lost opportunity and revenue—so much so, that Microsoft is telling all of us, “Our bad. Can we hit the reset button like 0bama and Clinton did with Putin?”
Your defense of Microsoft's disastrous attempt to better itself under extremely questionable conditions, is laughable. I support “moving forward, but at what cost?
How about you tell us next week how well driving your car with your tongue went, as you test out progress in your vehicle? (Marie—that's classic!)
Thank you.
And these computer people forget that MOST of us take our cars to CAR PEOPLE to be fixed or upgraded.
There is NO other industry that forces their entire consumer base to learn a new skill in order to keep using their product. None.
My brand new microwave works pretty much the same as the microwave that my mother bought in 1982. The stove works the same way that my grandmother’s stove worked in 1955. Thermostat... that took some tweaking to make it automatically change temps when we went to bed, but that was optional and I took two years for me to get around to learning how to do it. My newer car drives exactly the same as my first car in 1986. Push gas... GO. Push brake... STOP. The blinky thing is on the left. Wipers on the right. They did give me A/C and power windows... that’s about it.
But somehow we’re all supposed to be technologically literate and keep up with all the changes with computers... when we’re not computer people.
I know more about computers than I ever WANTED to know. And that’s just so that I can do basic activities.
I’ve got OTHER things to do. This is not my passion.